Despite regulatory efforts to promote gender diversity on boards, women are still severely underrepresented in board leadership the UK, beyond FTSE 100 companies. Evidence suggests that women, when poorly represented inthe workplace, more likely suffer discrimination. In this study we report first?hand experiences of discrimination suffered by female directors and present process how they build...

We study the impact of the size of a firm’s board of directors on managerial incentives. We present a model where a risk-averse agent (the top management team) performs multiple tasks for a firm that is controlled by multiple principals (the board of directors) who differ in the relative value they place on each task. We show that the agent’s incentives are lower than they would be had the boar...